Does a student who studies a text with a shaykh become a shaykh to him?

Question:
A questioner asks: If a student studies a text from the standard texts with a shaykh, does that person become his shaykh? That is, does he say, "My shaykh is so-and-so," because he studied a text with him, and is he considered one of his students?

Answer:
If he sits with him, benefits from him, and memorizes some knowledge from him, and he says, "He is my shaykh in such and such," such as "my shaykh in grammar," "my shaykh in tafsir," or "my shaykh in fiqh," according to what he learned from him. A person may have several shaykhs, yes, yes.
He may have thousands of shaykhs, or hundreds of shaykhs, as you study in the biographies of scholars who took knowledge from shaykhs. Yes, but this indicates that knowledge is not limited to a single discipline. It is not limited to reading hadith and the sciences of hadith only. Knowledge is interconnected; some of it serves some of it. One must read in hadith, in tafsir, in hadith, in grammar, in the Arabic language, in the principles of jurisprudence, and in the principles of tafsir.
He reads in the terminology of hadith; he does not limit himself to one discipline and say, "This is sufficient for me," because they are interconnected. If you do not find a scholar specialized in one discipline, you find him in another scholar. You take from their specializations, all of them. You take from the one who is suitable for you: you take from this one in grammar, from this one in fiqh, from this one in tafsir, from this one in the principles, and from this one in hadith. Yes.

The presenter:
May Allah reward you.